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National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979: Public Use Files (ICPSR 7865)

Principal Investigator(s):Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

Summary:

This study is an evaluation of the National Supported Work
Demonstration project, a transitional, subsidized work experience
program for four target groups of people with longstanding employment
problems: ex-offenders, former drug addicts, women who were long-term
recipients of welfare benefits, and school dropouts, many with
criminal records. The program provided up to 12-18 months of
employment to about 10,000 individuals at 15 locations across the
country for four years. In ten of these sites... (more info)

This study is an evaluation of the National Supported Work
Demonstration project, a transitional, subsidized work experience
program for four target groups of people with longstanding employment
problems: ex-offenders, former drug addicts, women who were long-term
recipients of welfare benefits, and school dropouts, many with
criminal records. The program provided up to 12-18 months of
employment to about 10,000 individuals at 15 locations across the
country for four years. In ten of these sites -- Atlanta, Chicago,
Hartford, Jersey City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Oakland, San
Francisco, and Wisconsin, 6,600 eligible applicants were randomly
assigned either to experimental groups (offered a job in supported
work) or to control groups, and an evaluation was conducted on the
effects of the Supported Work Program. At the time of enrollment,
each respondent was given a retrospective baseline interview,
generally covering the previous two years, followed by up to four
follow-up interviews scheduled at nine-month intervals. Two public use
files were originally distributed for this data collection: Supported Work
Employment and Earnings File, and Supported Work Deviant
Behavior File. Each file contained data for up to five
interviews, a cross-document dataset and an Aid to
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients follow-up. The Employment and Earnings File contains data from all interview modules except the drug and crime sections, and the Deviant Behavior File contains all variables on the Employment and Earnings File as well as additional information on drugs and crime. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients were further asked about children in school and welfare participation, while all non-AFDC
respondents were questioned about any extralegal activities. Demographic items specify age, sex, race, marital status, education, number of children, employment history, job search, job training, mobility, household income, welfare assistance, housing, military discharge status, and drug use. Each respondent has up to six logical, fixed-length records, with each record corresponding to a completed interview (up to five) and one additional short "cross-document" record. A User's Guide describing the collection
and its components is available and should be read before the collection
or any part of it is ordered.

Access Notes

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Dataset(s)

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Study Description

Citation

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979: Public Use Files. ICPSR07865-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-02. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07865.v2

Methodology

Sample:
Eligible ex-offenders, former drug addicts, women who were
long-term recipients of welfare benefits, and school dropouts, in Atlanta,
Chicago, Hartford, Jersey City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Oakland,
San Francisco, and Wisconsin, in the period 1975-1979.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-10

Version History:

2009-02-02 Seven datasets were extracted from each of the two original EBCDIC files -- a baseline interview, cross-document variables, 9, 18, 27, and 36 month interval interviews, and an AFDC follow-up.

2006-01-18 File UG7865.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.